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What to Expect From Google's New Self-Driving Car GC
"One of Vosen's first priorities will be to become well-versed with the technology in the autonomous vehicle that Google is creating, says Bryant Walke…
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Should the Police Have Robot Suicide-Bombers?
This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE. Last week, the Dalla…
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The ethics of a police robot bomb
""It raises a lot of concern about the increased weaponization of robots that the police use," said Peter Asaro, a co-founder of the Internationa…
Tesla Autopilot Crash: Why We Should Worry About a Single Death
This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE. Only recently, Tesla…
Police use of lethal robots sparks crime-fighting debate
Hours after gunman Micah Johnson ambushed police officers in downtown Dallas, he was killed by a bomb strapped on a police robot. Robots in the past have stoppe…
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Google’s Driverless Car Project Has a New Head Lawyer
"Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor who studies driverless cars at the University of South Carolina, said the difficulty with a system like Tesla’s is th…
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What does Dallas's 'bomb robot' mean for the future of policing?
"“We use the predator drone to target people overseas, and now we see the police force using a [robot] to target someone in a US city, and that catches peo…
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Why It's Legal for Police to Kill With a Robot
"According to University of Washington law professor Ryan Calo, the situation doesn’t give rise to any new legal issues, but is unsettling for a different…
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The Legal and Ethical Ramifications of Letting Police Kill Suspects With Robots
"“It is essentially a jury-rigged version of a drone strike,” Ryan Calo, a University of Washington School of Law professor specializing in cyber and robot…
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Bomb kill by robot a shift in police use
"Elizabeth Joh, a law professor at the University of California at Davis, who specializes in surveillance and technology issues, said she thought the Dalla…
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A conversation on the ethics of Dallas police's bomb robot
"Today we learned the Dallas police used a bomb disposal robot to deliver and detonate an explosion, killing the suspect in last night's shooting. It w…
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In an apparent first, Dallas police used a robot to deliver bomb that killed shooting suspect
"The way the robot was used in the Dallas case is likely legally no different from sending an officer in to shoot a hostile suspect, according to Universit…